The same week U.S. troops deployed into Ecuador “to fight the cartels,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth convened the first inaugural “Americas Counter Cartel Conference” (dubbed the “A3Cs"), held March 5 at the U.S. Southern Command’s Doral, Florida headquarters. Its aim was to lay out next steps in the administration’s drive for U.S. military dominance over the Western Hemisphere. Hegseth was joined by the equally brutal Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Stephen Miller to deliver U.S. orders to some two dozen leading military officers and/or defense ministers attending from 17 countries of the region. (Exactly how many and from which countries is not clear.)
Christian Zionist Hegseth did not promote Israel’s “Greater Israel” in this speech; instead he unveiled the Trump administration’s “Greater North America” project as the linchpin of a strategy to drive “U.S. adversaries” who align with “the Global South” out the hemisphere. President Trump has drawn a new strategic map to block those adversaries that “seek to displace the historic `North-South’ relationship… with some sort of a new “Global South” that excludes the United States and other Western nations but includes non-Western powers and other adversaries,” he pronounced.
“At the Department of War, we call this strategic map the Greater North America. Why? Because every sovereign nation and territory north of the Equator, from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, is not part of the `Global South.’ It is our immediate security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in. Each one of these countries border either the North Atlantic or the North Pacific.
“Each one of these countries sits north of the two basic geographic barriers that exist in this region, the Amazon and the Andes Mountains…. In the North, the United States must enhance posture and presence in cooperation with you and our sovereign partners to defend our shared immediate security perimeter.
